Antique Picture Frame by Masashi Uenagai

Frame by Masashi Uenagai

Mr. Uenagai was a painter and framer active in Paris and Brazil about 100 years ago.
His clients included Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen, and others.

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1899, he moved to France in 1927 and settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1941, where he dedicated himself to painting. He won a silver medal at the Salon of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio, the second Japanese person to do so after Yuya Takaoka, who won the medal for the first time as a Japanese national in 1938.
He lived in Paris for over ten years as a foreigner in Rio, associating with artists like Matisse, Bonnard, and Tsuguharu Foujita. He was the only Japanese person during the war who favored France over America. He was an obscure and unique painter who made his own frames in his studio and worked alongside Japanese-Brazilian painters from São Paulo.

Reinforced with an acrylic board.
This frame has been stored.
It is a frame that has passed through many years.
The box is not included.

Inner dimensions: 47.5 x 38 cm
Height: 1 cm
Size of inner plywood: 38 x 47 x 1 cm

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Packaging materials used for shipping will primarily be recycled items.